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Page 93 - Articles, Libel, or any other arbitrary way whatsoever, to " examine, or draw into Question, determine, or dispose of, the " Lands, Tenements, Hereditaments, Goods, or Chattels, of any of "the Subjects of this Kingdom; but that the same, ought to be " tryed, and determined, in the ordinary Courts of Justice, and by " the ordinary Course of the Law.
Page 81 - Annapolis, of his famous pamphlet, The right of the Inhabitants of Maryland to the Benefit of the English Laws.
Page 88 - ... unless the lord and master of them all should, by any manifest declaration of his will, set one above another, and confer on him by an evident and clear appointment an undoubted right to dominion and sovereignty.
Page 11 - ... with the advice, assent, and approbation of the freemen of the same province, or of the greater part of them, or of their delegates or deputies...
Page 22 - ... are enforced by penalties), the mode of maintenance for the established clergy, the jurisdiction of spiritual courts, and a multitude of other provisions, are neither necessary nor convenient for them, and therefore are not in force. What shall be admitted and what rejected, at what...
Page 84 - That the writ of habeas corpus may not be denied, but ought to be granted to every man that is committed or detained in prison, or otherwise restrained, though it be by the command of the king, the privy council, or any other, he praying the same.
Page 85 - That it is the ancient and indubitable right of every Freeman, that he hath a full and absolute property in his goods and estate ; that no tax, tallage, loan, benevolence, or other like charge ought to be commanded or levied by the King or any of his Ministers without common consent by Act of Parliament.
Page 93 - Habeas Corpus, and sometimes more, and by other shifts to avoid their yielding obedience to such writs, contrary to their duty and the known laws of the land, whereby many of the king's subjects have been and hereafter may be long detained in prison, in such cases where by law they are bailable, to their great charges and vexation: II. For the prevention whereof, and the more speedy relief of all persons imprisoned for any such criminal or supposed criminal matters...
Page 93 - Pluries Habeas Corpus, and sometimes more, and by other shifts to avoid their yielding obedience to such writs, contrary to their duty and the known laws of the land...
Page 21 - The common law of England is the common law of the plantations, and all statutes IN AFFIRMANCE OF THE COMMON LAW, passed in England antecedent to the settlement of...